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Animal navigation and biological rhythms: the inertial theory by Antonio B. Nafarrate
Editor’s comments: This paper is quite old but it does propose another navigation mechanism than the current obsession with magnetic orientation. The magnetic field has the terrible drawback of changing all the time and birds have migrating successfully before and after the Earth’s magnetic field flipped South for North. Albatrosses fitted with head magnets (to…
RIN16 (Animal Navigation)
Every three years the Royal Institute of Navigation hosts a conference in the UK for everyone interested in Animal navigation. The next one is in 2016: RIN16 (Animal Navigation) 13/04/2016 12:00:00 to 15/04/2016 12:00:00 Royal Holloway College, London RIN16 Orientation & Navigation Birds, Humans & Other Animals will be the ninth International Conference on Animal…
Bogong Moths
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The Quantum Robin by Peter Hore
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Dolphins – bit more information March 2012
Recently the New Scientist has run a number of articles on Dolphins and their communication. animalnav.org has already begun to discuss Dolphin communication see other posts. Our key point on this is that most “researchers” are allergic to the very idea of Telepathy but this is the very word that describes how dolphins communicate together….